Do you think it’s just a funny coincidence or did the guy feel like his plan for life was laid out before him via his last name?

via Macenstein. (via Cheap as in crappy)

Not good if you liked to use documents to go on other platforms…. I predict RIM will drop support for those pretty quickly, I don’t see how it is in their interest to maintain them. Kind of a kick in the nuts to those who have paid for it.

O RLY?

TGIF Right?

So I started and finished Bioshock 2 pretty quickly.  I wouldn’t say it is an easy game, but lately I have been really getting into these games that I’ve waited a while to buy.  I have shared this theory with some people before, but I really never buy a game for more than $30.  I am cheap, but it is more than that.  I have no problem waiting 2-3 months for it to drop.  Some games may take 6 months to drop in price.  But even so, in that 6 months, there are plenty of other still fairly new games in the $20-$30 range.  Now this kind of also applies to Goozex.  Basically I do a comparison to the lowest price I can buy it and the Goozex value * .05 and see which is the better price.  I really never request any goozex games that are more than 600 points.

My short review of Bioshock 2?  I loved it, however it didn’t bring a whole lot of changes.  In some ways, that’s good, the game play was very similar to the first.  The PS3 port seemed smoother and faster than the first.  The graphics engine seemed about the same, but they did kick it up a notch I think.  Really it seems like they basically just built new levels/skins/effects and incrementally updated the game engine.  I finished this one a lot quicker than the first, but I think that’s because I was already familiar with the gameplay.  If a new person sat down and played either, I would say Bioshock 2 would probably last 1.5 times as long as the first.

Anyway, I’ve put this one back up to trade on Goozex, and I started God of War 3.  I decided to play the God of War Collection before I went any farther, so I started on Assassin’s Creed II.  I will create a post about that one later.

June brought a lot of sales for video games, even Goozex was having tokenless trades for the entire month. So I’ll be playing a host of new games in the coming months. I received and finished Assassins Creed first.  While I enjoyed it, it only took about a week to finish and got a little repetitive after the first few missions.  Also it required a lot of repetitive button pushing that really started to make my hand sore.  I know that’s common with video games, but this was worse than most other games.

Now I’m working on Bioshock 2. I think it’s a good sequel to the first, but it could almost be an add-on as the game engine doesn’t seem changed that much, other than perhaps maybe running a little smoother on ps3. I will post another update soon since I’m almost done with it.

When I initially saw this headline, I read it as “Baby Blubber”

So I haven’t spent a lot of time playing games lately.  I went on vacation and was extremely busy at work before that… but I started playing a bit over the Memorial Day weekend.  I decided I would get back on Ghostbusters.  I made a lot of progress, and am enjoying the game a lot more than before.  It is still difficult chasing those ghosts but I guess that’s the point.

The story here is nothing to write home about. Now that I’ve played it more, it’s completely a rehash of what happened in the movies.. Started off in the Sedgewick hotel, went to the Library and then the Museum.  But I don’t really play video games for the story…  most don’t really have any decent story, so a good story is more of just a bonus to me.

While on vacation, my wife brought along a book that I started reading after she finished.  This is not one I probably would have picked out myself but it is not bad.  I saw the Kite Runner movie, and enjoyed it, but both of these are pretty depressing stories.  In case you are not familiar with either of these, they were written by an Afghan-American and mostly document pre-taliban days in Afghanistan and the contrast of how they are now after the Taliban and the US invasion.

I have had another book called Deep Storm.  I made it through the first chapter a long time ago, but never got into it.  It’s more of something I would pick to read and expect I’ll probably start it again after I finish this book.

So things weren’t going so well in Ghostbusters.  I had requested it at the same time I did Dead Space, but the guy sent it pretty late and it just now got here.

Ghostbusters plays out like a new sequel to the movie franchise.   You are a new recruit and learning the ropes.  And you get to use some new gadget’s they’ve come up with.

Sounds pretty cool if you were a kid of the 80s like I am, right?  Well it’s far from easy to the hit those ghosts with a particle beam and get them into the trap.  So I’ve put that game aside and started playing the new arrival:  Dead Space.  This is an older game, but still pretty decent graphics.  It plays pretty smoothly and has decent weapons.  It’s kind of creepy, mutant monster things keep jumping out at me.  The only problem is that I only played about an hour and got stuck maybe 4 times.  Not because it was difficult, just because it wasn’t very clear what you were supposed to do.  Before quitting the last time, I finally figured out how to look back at the instructions they give you.  So maybe that will help, but it’s late… I need to get to bed.

I finished up Arkham Asylum.  I would say it’s a very good game, and I enjoyed every minute of it.  I sent it off soon after.  I went about a week without playing anything, busy at work and around the house.  But I finally requested both Ghostbusters and Dead Space.  No idea where Dead Space is because the guy did not confirm it was shipped or add a tracking number.

Ghostbusters however, arrived today.  I played for maybe an hour before posting this.  It seems pretty decent, however I already find the proton steam a little difficult to wield.  I bet it will get easier after I get a hang of it.  It plays out very much like another Ghostbusters movie.  Even though it’s not supposed to be the first movie, it’s going through the hotel and you have to get “Slimer” again.  Anyway I’ll be playing this one probably unless I get and find Dead Space to be too much fun.

Just finished this book. I really enjoyed it.  Just thought I would share in case you were lookin’ for scifi book to read.

via imgs.xkcd.com

This is (and the other videos posted by this user) are making the rounds lately…  kind of creepy but cool.

I finished Killzone 2 finally…  That last boss area was a real bitch.  I did enjoy the game, but the cont  I also sent off a few games via Goozex, I decided it was time to give Batman: Arkham Asylum a try.  I really have just barely begun.  The following is my initial reaction.

I was surprised how visually appealing this game is.  Video games based off movies or comic books have notoriously been bad.  This one is really based on a specific batman movie, although perhaps they used some elements from the earlier Michael Keaton Batman movies.  And perhaps I see a little of Heath Ledger’s Joker, but not nearly as creepy.  I’m thinking it’s based more off the comic books, but I really haven’t read those so that is mostly a guess.

In summary I think it’s a surprisingly well made game.  It seems to be long enough to suit me, unless I suddenly shoot through 50% of the game overnight somehow.  One odd thing, the batarang in some ways reminds me of the glaive in Dark Sector.  That game was underrated I think, but it certainly wasn’t up to the quality level of this game.  I doubt they stole the idea from that, but just the only way to really enhance a thrown device really.